One of the neat things about discovery driven planning is watching how it has become popular with quite a large set of consultants, venture managers, entrepreneurs and other people for whom conventional planning is just… Read more »
Archives for 2008
It’s hard to grow a socially unpopular core business
The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported that Altria had, after a three-year trial, pulled the plug on a whole line of Marlboro products intended to be safer for smokers than the conventional cigarettes. As the… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: A lesson by a marketing consultant
One explanation for somewhat sparse postings these days is that I’m busy completing our new book, Discovery Driven Growth. Can’t say too much about it (publishers get irate) but in the course of researching the… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Mindset on Steve Blank’s List of the Best Books for Building a Startup
Entrepreneur Steve Blank has recommended Entrepreneurial Mindset as one of the best strategy books for startups: “The Entrepreneurial Mindset articulates the critically important idea that there are different types of startup opportunities. The notion of… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Mindset on Steve Blank’s List of the Best Books for Building a Startup
Entrepreneur Steve Blank has recommended Entrepreneurial Mindset as one of the best strategy books for startups: “The Entrepreneurial Mindset articulates the critically important idea that there are different types of startup opportunities. The notion of… Read more »
Business Week article cites Discovery Driven Planning
A June 16, 2008 BusinessWeek article entitled Demystifying Web 2.0, refers to discovery-driven planning: “It’s discovery-driven business planning rather than the old-fashioned planning that comes from the top down. Entrepreneurs are particularly good with this… Read more »
Entrepreneurial wanna-be’s: More resources
I wrote not too long ago about the resources available to aspiring entrepreneurs, including SCORE, the SBDC’s of most major universities and other entities dedicated to helping people start and grow successful businesses. Kelly Spors,… Read more »
Rita McGrath on YouTube!
In March 2008, Rita McGrath spoke to the IESE Business School in Lisbon, Spain. A portion of her presentation is featured at YouTube. To view, click here..
Should Ann Livermore Move beyond HP?
Rita McGrath has posted Should Ann Livermore Move beyond HP? at the Harvard Business Publishing site. To read the text, click here.
Insightful note on the complexity of rules by Norman Bartczak
I’m attending Jeff Sonnenfeld’s Yale CEO Summit this week, and this morning listened in on a fascinating presentation by my colleague, Norman Bartczak, who manages to make accounting interesting! Among the many things that caught… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Learning from failures and disappointments at Lululemon
I was browsing through this week’s edition of Business Week when I ran across a great story as part of their 50 fast-growth companies series. The story is about Lululemon, a retailer that has grown… Read more »
Missing Women, Empty Talent Pipelines, and CEO Compensation
Rita McGrath is a regular contributor at the Harvard Business Publishing blog. Read her article on Missing Women, Empty Talent Pipelines, and CEO Compensation by clicking on the title.